Phill Brown

Dynamic Sorting is a lightweight WooCommerce plugin that links up with your Google Analytics account and allows you to sort products based on a website’s usage statistics. Out the box, it adds two ordering options – sort by views and sort by visits.
Google Analytics sorting options can be hidden from the user facing sorting dropdown. This means you can set the default sorting order to feature your shop’s most popular products without your customer knowing.
There is also a premium version of the plugin called <a href="http://pbweb.co.uk/sort-by-ga-shop" rel="nofollow ugc">Sort by Google Analytics</a> that lets you sort any post type by any Google Analytics metric. WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting works with the product post type and supports sorting by pageviews and visits.
The Indexer
For performance reasons the plugin operates off a locally downloaded index of Google Analytics data. The indexer runs twice a day and you can trigger it manually through the Dynamic Sorting Settings section in the Catalog tab in WooCommerce Settings. Once the indexer has run at least once, the plugin is ready to use.
To increase the batch of the indexer to 400, add the following code to your plugin or theme:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'woocommerce_dynamic_sorting_indexer_data_batch_size', create_function( '', 'return 400;' ) ); </code></pre>
Requirements
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.1+</li>
<li>WooCommerce 1.0+ plugin installed</li>
<li>PHP cURL extension</li>
<li>PHP JSON extension</li>
<li>Google Analytics Account</li>
</ul>

WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting

WooCommerce plugin that links up with Google Analytics to sort products based on page views and visits.

Abhay Rautela

The Query Loop block in WordPress does not include a “Random” ordering option in the sidebar UI. 
However, WordPress core does support <code>orderby = rand</code> in <code>WP_Query</code>.
The problem: 
Using <code>"orderBy": "rand"</code> inside a Query Loop block can cause the Site Editor preview to fail, because <code>rand</code> is not included in the REST API schema for posts.
This plugin fixes that by extending the REST API orderby enum so the editor recognizes <code>"rand"</code> as valid.
<h3>✔ What this plugin does</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds <code>"rand"</code> to the REST API <code>orderby</code> enum for posts and pages. </li>
<li>Allows the Query Loop block to use <code>"orderBy": "rand"</code> safely. </li>
<li>Prevents JSON errors and broken previews in the Site Editor. </li>
<li>Makes “random post” layouts work reliably both in the editor and frontend.</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚠ What this plugin does not do</h3>
<ul>
<li>It does not add a “Random” option to the Query Loop UI dropdown. 
(That UI is defined in Gutenberg’s JavaScript.)</li>
<li>You must still set <code>"orderBy": "rand"</code> manually using the Code Editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example use case</h3>
Want your homepage, blog, quotes site, testimonials, or featured-section to show 
a different post every time the page loads?
Install this plugin → open the template → switch to Code Editor → set <code>"orderBy": "rand"</code>.

Random Posts for Query Loop Block

Adds "rand" to the REST API orderby options so the Query Loop block can use random post order safely without breaking the Site Editor preview.

WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting vs Random Posts for Query Loop Block